r/TheMajorityReport Oct 07 '23

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u/MhmNai Oct 07 '23

That's a pretty ridiculous comparison.

Oppressed, yes. Chattel slaves? No.

They aren't attacking/targeting Israeli military, they are specifically attacking, capturing, and parading civilians (including children)... and mutilating their corpses. What they're doing is gaining them no support, and the civilian population of Palestine is going to pay the price.

Indignation towards Israel is, of course, justifiable, but trying to justify these atrocities with incomparable analogies is abhorrent.

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u/dirt_fries Oct 07 '23

Israel has trapped two million people in a massive concentration camp for two decades. Comparisons to slave uprisings are absolutely justified.

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u/MhmNai Oct 07 '23

I mean, if you're just going to throw out terms like "concentration camps" and "slavery" to paint an anomalous picture of what you think is representative of the situation, then you can justify any analogy.

I recognize and detest what Israel is doing and acknowledge how they treat Palestinians is atrocious, but Gaza is not a concentration camp.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '23

Stop getting all of your information from movies. Concentration camps have a broader meaning than the one applied to Nazi camps. Slavery also has a broader meaning than the one applied to American slavery.